St. Louis Cathedral: The Heart and Soul of New Orleans
Few cities in the world are so identified by a single building as is New Orleans. The image of St. Louis Cathedral and its position overlooking Jackson Square represent our city like no other place.
This venerable building, its triple steeples towering above its historic neighbors, the Cabildo and the Presbytere, looks down benignly on the green of the Square and General Andrew Jackson on his bronze horse and on the block-long Pontalba Buildings with their lacy ironwork galleries. Truly, this is the heart of old New Orleans.
The Cathedral-Basilica of St. Louis King of France is America's oldest Catholic Cathedral Faith Community.